OH! OH! Gear heads listen up!

[AndyS]

TTArtisan announced the Tilt-Shift 100mm f/2.8 2X Macro!
https://ttartisan.myshopify.com/products/ts-100mm-f2-8-macro-2x?ref=1N3BHPnf3rU7j4

Tilt/Shift is a big deal! By shifting the lens from side to side or up and down it allows the photographer to change the composition without re-aiming the camera. Think of pointing the camera up at a tall building. Tilting the camera makes the building pointy at the top. If you can keep the camera level and lift the lens on the camera the sides of the building stay straight!

The tilt is really magic tho. By tilting the lens and leaving the camera level you can lay the field of focus down flat! That's right, the out of focus parts are above and below the horizontal, not in front of or behind the vertical. ?v=1684149694&width=713

Both features could be of interest to Macro shooters because there is so little depth of focus at close distances.

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[MutantAndProud]

1. Neat

Never had the chance to experiment with professional gear like that

Did plenty with my smartphones. The early Samsung androids could be coaxed into some amazing macro shots

[Old Crank]

2. Since I used view cameras

I'm familiar with the feature.
I have been skeptical about how well it worked through the view finder on 35mm.
With the larger screens now it should be easier to check focus. Just bring your loup and darkcloth...😁😁

[AndyS]

3. When I was introduced to Schiemflug it blew my mind. Like,what? Focus up and

down instead of in and out? Ya' gotta' be kiddin' me . . .

[Gato Moteado]

4. exactly, andy....by having the film plane or sensor parallel to your subject you don't get...

...converging lines. it's how people can get a square shot of the top of a tower or building from ground level and how photographers can get a square, head on shot of a mirror without being reflected in it.

[mike_c]

5. another alternative is to use a bellows with tilt shift

I use the Nikon PB-4 bellows, usually with a 50mm reverse mounted flat field enlarger lens. The PB-4 has shift capability on the front lens board, although honestly I never use it. But it's there. That particular bellows/lens combination is awesome for studio macro, and generally available for reasonable cost, though it might take some searching online to find them.

I wonder what this lens would do on a Nikon F-mount APS-C camera? It's only listed as compatible with full frame models, but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work, just within the narrower crop factored center of the image. And the list of compatible Nikon F-mounts does end with "etc." I'd love to try one out. The price is surprisingly low!

[AndyS]

6. Keep in mind that using rising front and shift is simply taking a rectangle out of the

oversized image circle cast by the lens. A 4x5 view camera used lenses that cast an 8-10 inch round image. A 36 mm image circle would be minimal for 4/3 or aps c sensors. If the lens is designed for full frame I'd expect a 70mm image to be useful for shift/tilt.

I've used bellows with shift/tilt to fair advantage back in the film days. The difficulty was the eye level viewfinder and it's limitations as you mentioned elsewhere. Ah, those were the days . . .